File #: 22-0676    Version: 1
Type: Agenda Item Status: Approved
File created: 4/6/2022 In control: Board of Supervisors
On agenda: 5/10/2022 Final action: 5/10/2022
Title: HEARING - The Board is asked to consider a request from the El Dorado Hills Community Services District to adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 069-2022 revising development impact mitigation fees for parks and recreation. FUNDING: N/A
Attachments: 1. A - EDHCSD Fee Resolution 2022 CPI ADU, 2. B - EDHCSD Request, 3. C - Counsel Approval, 4. Executed Resolution 069-2022
Related files: 21-0464, 17-1355, 18-1034
Title
HEARING - The Board is asked to consider a request from the El Dorado Hills Community Services District to adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 069-2022 revising development impact mitigation fees for parks and recreation.

FUNDING: N/A
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The California Mitigation Fee Act (Cal. Gov. Code §§ 66000-66025) provides for the establishment of fees on new development for the purpose of mitigating the effects of development on existing public facilities. Special districts do not have statutory authority to impose these fees. As a result, the Board of Supervisors has passed an ordinance providing for the establishment of such fees on behalf of special districts. The ordinance was codified as Chapter 13.20.

Parks and recreation development impact mitigation fees were first collected on the District's behalf in 1998. The current fees are based on a Fee Nexus Study and Report (Resolution 135-2018, Legistar File 18-1034) (“Report”) detailing the legal and policy basis justifying the development impact mitigation fee within the District.

The Report includes a recommendation for an annual inflationary adjustment based on the percentage change in the Annual Consumer Price Index. Resolution 135-2018 did not include a provision for automatic annual inflationary adjustments to the fee because any increase to the fee must be made by resolution of the Board of Supervisors at a noticed public hearing, pursuant to the Mitigation Fee Act. The District's last inflationary adjustment was in 2021, by adoption of Resolution 022-2021, increasing fees by 2%.

In February 2022, the District adopted Resolution No. 2022-05, adopting an increase to the fees of 4.2%, based on the change in the Construction Cost Index for Calendar Year 2021, and requesting the Board of Supervisors adopt the 4.2% increase to the established impact fees.
Additionally, the District has adopted Resolution 2022-02 proposing the Collection of a Park Impact Fee for Acc...

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